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Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel
Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel is Vice President and Publisher of the Pearson Education's Peachpit Creative Pro Technology Group, specializing in educational and professional training products at the intersection of technology and design. With products ranging from print and enhanced ebooks, videos and apps, to the online subscription service Creative Edge and the award-winning online learning platform MyGraphicsLab, Peachpit is now celebrating 25 years as the industry leader in Web design and development, photography, video and media production, and graphic design. The official publisher of all things Kelby Training, Adobe and Apple, Peachpit is home to internationally recognized imprints Peachpit Press, Adobe Press, Apple Training and New Riders, with its acclaimed Voices That Matter series featuring industry thoughts leaders such as Steve Krug, Jeffrey Zeldman and Facebook's Paul Adams, among numerous others. Learn more at www.peachpit.com and www.pearson.com. View Guest page
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Linda T. Alepin
Linda T. Alepin is Founding Director of the Global Women’s Leadership Network (www.GWLN.org) and Dean’s Professor of Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. She has been a pioneer and visionary all her career. She has demonstrated her entrepreneurial skills in IBM with its small business division, at Amdahl corporation as it emerged from its startup stage, in her own internet startup, and in founding a not for profit. She has spent the last decade immersed in developing women entrepreneurs leaders around the globe. View Guest page
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Chris Allen
Chris Allen is the CEO of Biomimicry 3.8, the global leader in biomimicry innovation training, consulting services, and education. He is a certified Biomimicry Professional, with an expertise in business strategy and development. Trained in International Business at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas (1985), Chris has over 20 years experience providing strategy and management consulting services related to sustainable development for a variety of private sector clients as well as the US Department of Energy, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, the Northwest Area Foundation, and the United Nations Man and Biosphere Program. His international experience includes work and studies in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Mexico and he serves on the Board of Directors of A World Institute for Sustainable Humanity View Guest page
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Lee Amon
Lee Amon is the principal consultant at MarketQwest Associates, where he helps his clients to successfully launch new products and navigate changes to the market and technology. Prior to MarketQwest Lee was director of marketing at MDL Information Systems, where he managed the launch of MDL’s biology products. Lee has also held marketing positions at Chips and Technologies and GE/Calma. Lee holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, is a published author, and an adjunct professor at University of Phoenix and Upper Iowa University View Guest page
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George Anders
George Anders is the bestselling author of five books and a contributing writer at Forbes. Most recently, he is the author of “The Rare Find,” a management/leadership book that spells out a new framework for finding talent, and “Becoming a Rare Find,” a careers book that helps people with jagged resumes win great jobs. His earlier books include “Merchants of Debt,” “Health Against Wealth,” and the New York Times bestseller “Perfect Enough.” In 1997, George shared in the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. His journalistic career includes many years as a top feature writer for The Wall Street Journal, as well as staff positions with Fast Company magazine and Bloomberg View. His freelance work has appeared in publications ranging from Harvard Business Review to SmartMoney, Parade, BusinessWeek and The (U.K.) Guardian. He is a graduate of Stanford University and lives in northern California. View Guest page
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Chris Anderson
Anderson took the helm of Wired in 2001 and has led the magazine to more than two dozen National Magazine Award nominations since, winning the prestigious top prize for general excellence in 2005, 2007 and 2009. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Long Tail and FREE: The Future of a Radical Price, both of which are based on influential articles published in Wired. He is also founder of 3D Robotics, an open source robotics company. He was named in April 2007 to the "Time 100," the news magazine's list of the 100 most influential men and women in the world. He previously was at The Economist, where he served as U.S. business editor, Asia business editor and technology editor. Anderson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from George Washington University and studied Quantum Mechanics and Science Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. View Guest page
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Chris Arnold
Chris Arnold joined Chipotle as Director of Public Relations in 2003. In his current capacity as Director of Communications, Chris oversees the company's media and government relations, social media, customer service and internal communications functions. Prior to joining Chipotle, he served as Vice President of Linhart McClain Finlon Public Relations, one of the largest independent public relations agencies in the Rocky Mountain Region. He has more than 15 years of experience in public relations, corporate communications and marketing communications working with companies and organizations in a variety of industries. He holds a BA and MBA from the University of Denver. View Guest page
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Justin Beck
Justin Beck is the Co-Founder and CEO of PerBlue, a mobile and social gaming company in Madison, Wisconsin. The company is best known for its flagship product, Parallel Kingdom, the first location-based RPG. Justin is a passionate software developer and entrepreneur. As CEO, Beck has grown PerBlue from a group five college friends to a team of 40 full-time employees. Prior to starting PerBlue, Beck held software engineer and program manager positions at Microsoft and Google. Beck graduated from the University of Wisconsin with degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. View Guest page
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Rob Belcher
Rob Belcher is a Principal with Lighter Capital, a Seattle-based financial technology company changing how early-stage companies get funded. The company invests in growth-stage companies using an entrepreneur-friendly model called revenue-based finance (RBF) and uses technology to quickly and efficiently deploy Capital-as-a-ServiceTM. Rob has 10 years experience in venture capital, investment banking and consulting. He grew up in Golden, Colorado, studied economics at Colby College in Waterville, Maine and received an MBA from the Foster School of Business, University of Washington. He loves climbing and skiing, good grammar and manners, hoppy craft beer, philanthropy/poker, MS Excel nerdery, throwing the frisbee with his Australian Shepherd Kora and singing the alphabet song with his wife and six-month old son. View Guest page
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César Bocanegra
As Chief Operating Officer at DonorsChoose.org, César is responsible for leading the operations team and ensuring the operations’ workflow is fully scalable. In less than seven months, he was able to scale the organization from supporting 10,000 public schools to over 100,000 public schools while at the same time increasing customer satisfaction with a minimal increase in budget. César has significant experience building team structures, tools, systems, and processes that ensure the operations of an organization are scalable. Prior to joining DonorsChoose.org, he spent 11 years with AT&T in various capacities, including Sales, Finance, Legal, and Vendor Management. César earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech. He graduated with an M.S. from MIT, and has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. View Guest page
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Chaka Booker
Chaka Booker is managing director of The Broad Residency in Urban Education. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of the program including recruitment, selection, placement and professional development. Previously, Booker served as senior director of recruitment and selection for The Broad Residency. Prior to joining The Broad Center, Booker worked in the public sector, first as the founder and director of A+ Services, a tutorial company operating within the Los Angeles Unified School District, and then as director of education for Star Inc., a provider of after-school enrichment, curriculum development and supplemental education services. Booker received his bachelor’s degrees in economics and psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. View Guest page
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Anthony Brennan
Dr. Anthony Brennan is the inventor of the Sharklet™ surface technology and the founder of Sharklet Technologies where he currently serves as the company’s Chief Technical Officer. Dr. Brennan is also an endowed professor in the Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering department at the University of Florida. His research group has earned 12 Ph.D.’s and 26 MS degrees, authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, and secured 27 invention disclosures and seven patents. Dr. Brennan received his Ph.D. in materials engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. As the associate director of the Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Professor Brennan has initiated and participated in numerous interdisciplinary research programs with the Colleges of Engineering, Liberal Arts and Sciences and Dentistry. Within the business community, Dr. Brennan serves as reviewer of numerous publications and serves as consultant to the medical device industry. View Guest page
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Vicky Brock
Vicky began her career in direct marketing, including working on Tesco Clubcard, one of the pioneers of retail intelligence. She co-founded award winning digital insight agency Highland Business Research, running the company for 7 years and leading the company to become Scotland’s first Google Analytics Certified Partner and first Google Analytics Authorised Trainer outside the US. She recently served 4 years on Board of the US-based Digital Analytics Association & speaks internationally on analytics. Vicky previously worked with HP, creating their initial pan-EMEA analytics programme. In 2012 Vicky founded her second award-winning company, Clear Returns, which has developed predictive software for the retail industry. Less than 1 year old and Clear Returns have won several accolades including the Big Data Venture Challenge in Rome, they made it to the Euopean finals of IBM Smartcamp and were the only non-US finalists selected to attend Women 2.0 in View Guest page
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Bo Burlingham
Bo Burlingham is editor-at-large—and former executive editor—of Inc. magazine and chairman of the Small Giants Community (www.smallgiants.org). His book Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big was a finalist for the 2006 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award. His most recent book, co-authored with Norm Brodsky, is Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs. He has also written two books with Jack Stack, CEO of Springfield Holdings Corp. and pioneer of open-book management. One of them, The Great Game of Business, was named one of 100 best business books of all time. The second, A Stake in the Outcome, has been called “the first management classic of the new millennium.” He is currently working on a book about exits. Mr. Burlingham lives in Oakland, CA, with his wife of 41 years, Lisa. They have two children and two grandchildren. View Guest page
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Tim Caffrey
Tim Caffrey is a consultant with Wohlers Associates, an independent consulting firm that provides technical and strategic advice on new developments and trends in rapid product development and additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing. The company is in its 26th year, and has worked with more than 170 client organizations in 23 countries around the world. For the past 17 years, Wohlers Associates has published the Wohlers Report, a worldwide market study that covers all facets of the 3D printing industry, including business, product, market, technology, research, and application. Caffrey’s employment history includes The Boeing Company, Pratt & Whitney, and Walmart corporate. Caffrey managed the operation of additive manufacturing equipment in the 1990s at Boeing and at a large service provider, and also has over 20 years of experience in technical, editorial, and advertising writing. He has worked with Wohlers Associates since 2000. View Guest page
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Ben Choi
Ben is currently Co-Founder and CEO of CoffeeTable, the #1-rated catalog shopping app for iPad and iPhone. Ben first gained experience as an operator in several technology startups. Ben served as VP Strategy at Greystripe (acquired by ValueClick), a mobile rich media ad platform. At Yahoo, he directed the Southeast Asia mobile strategy. Ben shifted his career to venture capital with roles at In-Q-Tel (the CIA's VC arm), Storm Ventures, and RRE Ventures. Ben later joined Maveon, a consumer-focused VC firm founded by Howard Schultz. At Maveron, Ben focused the mobile and ecommerce sectors. Ben has served as board member or observer for KidZui, TheWrap, Course Hero, Decide.com, Mozes and SAY Media (fka VideoEgg), and remains a Venture Partner. Ben received his BA in Computer Science with honors from Harvard University, and his MBA from Columbia Business School, with Dean's List and Beta Gamma Sigma distinctions. Ben is also a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program. View Guest page
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Andrew D’Souza
Andrew D’Souza Andrew leads Top Hat Monocle's San Francisco office as the company's Chief Revenue Officer, where he focuses on strategic partnerships, marketing, and developing new revenue growth opportunities. Before joining THM, Andrew led the Sales, Marketing, and Business Development teams for social recruiting startup, TopProspect. Andrew began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company's media practice, where he advised large media conglomerates on their online and mobile strategy, international content distribution plans and M&A transactions. Andrew studied Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he graduated on the Dean's Honor's List. A Canadian sports enthusiast, Andrew managed the events staff of the Whistler Media Center at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Andrew is on the organizing committee of TEDxSan Francisco and has been an advisor to Engineers Without Borders, Ashoka, and the Khan Academy. View Guest page
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Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis, CEO of Orabrush, brings 23 years of experience in sales, marketing and general management at Procter & Gamble both domestically and abroad. Jeff’s P&G experience spans six different product sectors in five countries in North America and Europe. The broad and deep expertise he developed—from opening new markets in Eastern Europe to building a global business in the pharmaceutical industry to leading the integration of the international Wella company into P&G—will guide Orabrush to global leadership in the oral hygiene marketplace. In addition to his active business leadership, Jeff is working to influence positive change in industry and education. He teaches and collaborates with the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah to develop innovative hands-on curriculum and programs, and is helping develop Ernst & Young’s business advisory practice with top worldwide clients. Jeff holds bachelor’s degrees in marketing and German, both from the University of Utah. View Guest page
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Denise DeLuca
Denise’s background in engineering has taken her career through public, private,and non-profit sectors, including running her own sustainable resource consulting business, Emergent Solutions. As former Outreach Director for The Biomimicry Institute, Denise presented numerous lectures and workshops and helped expand and deepen the tools and concepts of biomimicry. From 2009-2012 Denise lived in the UK where she became a Project Lead for Swedish Biomimetics 3000, a company that develops radical biomimetic innovations. While in the UK, she also co-founded BCI: Biomimicry for Creative Innovation, an emerging network that works to integrate natures principles into businesses and organizations to acheive radical transformation. Denise is now living in Seattle where she continues her work with BCI and SB3000, and is also an adjunct faculty for the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Master’s program called Sustaianble Design Online. Contact: denise@BusinessInspiredByNature.com View Guest page
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Phil Drew
Phil Drew is an Associate Director at Fishburn Hedges, one of Europe’s leading communications consultancies, whose clients include Nestlé, Shell, and Sony. Phil advises a range of global and UK businesses on corporate and brand reputation, with a specific focus on sustainability and social media. He is particularly interested in how digital media is transforming businesses’ approach corporate responsibility, a topic he has written about regularly for titles such as The Guardian newspaper. Prior to Fishburn Hedges, Phil worked with major businesses, Government, and NGO, to run a major corporate sustainability campaign backed by British Prime Minister David Cameron and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. View Guest page
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Alicia Dunams
Alicia Dunams helps CEOs, business owners, and service professionals attract clients, establish industry expertise, and build profits by making them bestselling authors. Her clients have appeared on national media outlets such as 20/20, CNN, and on the cover of The New York Times. On average, her clients add an additional 5 figures to their bottom line each year because they have added “published author” to their resume. This income is a result of paid keynotes, sold-out seminars, increased web traffic, and higher consulting fees. Besides helping people write books, she helps them become Amazon.com bestsellers by utilizing social networking and Internet marketing techniques, as featured in her eBook, How to Become a Bestselling Author on Amazon.com. Alicia is also a published self-help author, seminar producer, and the founder of a teleseminar listing service and email newsletter, See You On The Call. Alicia is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. View Guest page
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Angel Evan
Angel Evan is the founder of Dark Matter Inc. (http://www.the-dark-matter.com/). He is widely regarded as one of the top minds in mobile strategy. Angel has an approach like no other. He starts with a battery of cold, hard data and blends it with a strong sense of visual design that simplifies and demystifies even the most complicated topics. It’s a unique method that has garnered the attention of companies such as HP, Microsoft, Coca Cola and ING Bank. This well-informed, user-friendly approach to strategy is especially attractive to those who have grown weary of PowerPoint presentations filled with overused industry jargon and meaningless statistics. His company offers on-site consulting, mobile profiles, 360 mobile strategy and mobile marketing campaign strategy. View Guest page
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Curtis Feeny
Curtis Feeny invests in enterprise software, data center systems, wireless and clean IT. He also focuses on SaaS, open source, and capital efficient companies, and has been a managing director at Voyager Capital since 2000. Curtis has served on 14 boards and remains a board member of CB Richard Ellis CBG:NYSE, which purchased Trammell Crow Company TCC:NYSE. Curtis was appointed by President Bush to be a Trustee of the Presidio Trust. Before joining Voyager, Curtis was the first Executive Vice President of Stanford Management Company, helping oversee the University’s endowment when assets under management grew from $1.5 billion to $9 billion. He was responsible for investing and managing real estate and other asset classes. Before joining Stanford, Curtis was managing partner for Trammell Crow with $700 million of assets under management. Previously, he worked in energy R&D semiconductor industries. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS ME from Texas A&M University. View Guest page
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David Feinleib
David Feinleib is the author of the The Big Data Landscape (http://www.forbes.com/sites/davefeinleib/2012/06/19/the-big-data-landscape/) and a contributor to Forbes.com. Mr. Feinleib is recognized as an authority on Big Data and entrepreneurship. Previously, Mr. Feinleib was a General Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a $2B venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. Prior to Mohr Davidow, Mr. Feinleib founded Likewise Software, which was acquired by EMC, and Consera Software, which was acquired by HP. He is co-founder of Speechpad, the leader in online video transcription. Mr. Feinleib began his career at Microsoft. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Cornell University. An avid triathlete, Mr. Feinleib is an Ironman finisher View Guest page
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Luca Ferrari
Luca Ferrari Work Experience: 2010-today: Co-founder and COO at Evertale 2010-2012: Associate at McKinsey & Company, Business Technology Office Education: 2008-2010: MSc in Telecommunication Engineering at Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2007-2010: MSc in Electrical Engineering at University of Padua, Italy Scholarships: 2008-2010: T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) Interests: - Literature (favorite writer: M. Proust) - Cinema (favorite director: S. Kubrick) - Sports (football and basketball) - Travelling (backpacking) View Guest page
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Alex Flint
Alex Flint is a Neurointensivist, stroke specialist, and medical device inventor. He's the kind of doctor who isn't satisfied with improving care for his own patients-he wants to make things better for everyone. Alex went to medical school and graduate school at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He did his post-graduate training in Neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York and his Neurocritical Care and Stroke fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Alex's research has been published in journals such as Nature, Neuron, Stroke, the Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, and Neurology. Alex has had a longstanding interest in the role of technology in the practice of medicine. He co-founded image32 to create disruptive and innovative software that doctors and patients will love to use. Follow Alex on Twitter: @neuroicudoc, on Doximity: https://www.doximity.com/pub/alexander-flint-md, View Guest page
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Donna Flynn
Donna is a Director of WorkSpace Futures in the Corporate Research and Strategy team at Steelcase, and leads a global team of researchers who explore work experiences, wherever work happens. Donna joined Steelcase in 2011 from Microsoft Corporation, where she held a number of User Experience leadership roles - across healthcare, consumer and productivity product groups. In 2011, she also co-chaired the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC), the premier international conference that convenes practitioners of ethnographic research for business across consulting firms, multinational organizations, and universities. Donna received her PhD in Anthropology at Northwestern University in 1997; as a Fulbright scholar, she investigated impacts of the globalizing economy on cross-border trade movements, smuggling, and work practices in West African borderland communities. View Guest page
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Louis Forman
Louis Forman, CEO and Founding Partner of Edison Nation Louis Foreman is the CEO of Edison Nation, the founder and Chief Executive of Enventys, the creator and executive producer of Everyday Edisons, and the publisher of Inventors Digest. Louis graduated from The University of Illinois with a Bachelors of Science in Economics. He created his first business in his college dorm room and since then, has authored The Independent Inventors Handbook, created nine successful start-ups and has been directly responsible for the creation of over 20 others. A prolific inventor, Louis holds 10 registered U.S. patents. He is an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Queens University and Belmont Abby College, and his awards and accolades are many. Additionally, Louis sits on many boards and committees within the world of innovation, most notably the nine-person Patent Public Advisory Committee of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. View Guest page
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Priya Haji
Priya Haji is the CEO and co-founder of SaveUp, a free rewards program that motivates Americans to make good financial decisions like saving money and paying down debt. She has a history of building companies with a social purpose. After graduating Stanford University, she co-founded and led Free at Last for substance abuse treatment and HIV/AIDS intervention in East Palo Alto. After receiving her MBA from UC Berkeley, she co-founded and led World of Good, a branded marketplace for fair trade and sustainable goods made by women in 55 countries. World of Good built partnerships with retailers like Hallmark, Disney and Whole Foods and became part of eBay in 2010. In 2007, Priya received the Social Innovation Award from the Social Venture Network for her vision to change the way the world does business, and in 2009 was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Now her new venture, SaveUp, is helping Americans to succeed financially. View Guest page
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Mario Herger
MARIO HERGER has been Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, and started his enterprise gamification consulting business. He also co-founded and heads the Austrian Innovation Center Silicon Valley (AICSV). He helps organization make work more fun. In his work on enterprise gamification he has encountered and supported gamification efforts in the enterprise from multiple levels and departments. He has driven the awareness around gamification by organizing and leading innovation events around this topic, holding full day gamification workshops, working with gamification platform- & service-providers and game studios, consulting and advising organizations, and by incorporating gamification into SAP's strategy. He is the author of the upcoming book “Enterprise Gamification: Exploiting people by letting them have fun“ He played through all levels of the iPad game Air Attack and currently works with his six year old son on reaching the final level of Angry Birds in Space. View Guest page
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Linda Holliday
The depth of Linda’s technology expertise is matched only by her desire to see it used to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number. After earning her undergraduate degree in painting at the University of Michigan, Linda split off from the trail of most aspiring artists to head to Wharton, where she earned her MBA. That left brain/right brain ambidexterity has been a hallmark of her career: Her first startup, Medical Broadcasting Company, an early entrant into the digital marketing space, was sold in 2006 to Digitas, where it was rebranded Digitas Health; Semi-Linear’s focus on serious nonfiction books is an expression of Linda’s commitment to creativity, big ideas, and the importance of using digital media to spread those ideas more widely. She lives in New York City with her husband. View Guest page
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Carl Honoré
Carl Honoré is an award-winning author and globetrotting ambassador for the Slow Movement. After working with street children in Brazil, he covered Europe and South America for the Economist, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle and Time magazine. His first book, In Praise of Slowness, examines our compulsion to hurry and chronicles a global trend toward putting on the brakes. The Financial Times said it is “to the Slow Movement what Das Kapital is to communism.” His second book, Under Pressure, examines modern childrearing and was hailed by Time as a “gospel of the Slow Parenting movement.” His new book, The Slow Fix, explores how to tackle problems in every walk of life, from health and relationships to business and politics, without falling for superficial quick fixes. Translated into more than 30 languages, his books have landed on bestseller lists in many countries. The Wall Street Journal hailed Carl as “an in-demand spokesman on slowness.” His TED talk has been viewed 800,000 times. View Guest page
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Dr. Waguih S. Ishak
Dr. Waguih S. Ishak Fellow, IEEE Experience: 2007: VP, Corning West Tech Center. R&D for displays, fiber optics and illumination technologies. 2005: CTO & VP, Avago Technologies. R&D for fiber optics, MEMS and high speed electronics technologies. 2003: VP a& Director, Photonics & Electronics Research Lab, Agilent Technologies. R&D in photonics, high-speed electronics, sensors, wireless communications, and consumer electronics. Products: laser mouse and optical interconnects. 1995: Director, Communications & Optics Research Labs, HP Labs. R&D in photonics and integrated electronics. Products: optical mouse, photonic switch and optical interconnects. 1978 – 1995: Manager, HP Labs. R&D in Magnetics, Acoustics and Microwave technologies. Education: 1999: Executive Program, Stanford University 1978: Ph.D., EE, McMaster University, Canada 1975: M.Sc., EE, McMaster University, Canada 1973: B.Sc., Mathematics, Ain Shams University, Egypt. 1971: B.Sc., EE (Electrical Engineering), Cairo University, Egypt. View Guest page
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David Kaval
David Kaval is the president of San Jose Earthquakes. Kaval’s leadership has led to the groundbreaking on an 18,000-seat, privately financed stadium in San Jose, boosts in sponsorship, and a team that finished with the best record in Major League Soccer during the regular season. Season ticket revenue has risen 42 percent, sponsorship revenue increased 57 percent and the Earthquakes have signed its first New Stadium Founding Partnership with 7Up Bottling Co. of San Francisco. He joined Earthquakes after six successful seasons with the independent GBL, a league that he founded with a fellow Stanford Business School graduate in 2003. Prior to founding the GBL, he spent time working on the budget for national security for the Office of the President of the United States. He also worked as the Director of Business Development for Sparks.com and as a Business Analyst for Accenture. View Guest page
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Andrew C. Kessler
Andrew C. Kessler is President and Co-Founder of Turning Earth, LLC, an integrated organics recycling company. Prior to launching Turning Earth, Mr. Kessler spent 15 years as an investment banker holding senior positions in Corporate Finance and M&A at HSBC, Waller Capital, and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Kessler writes on organics recycling and regularly speaks at industry forums. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Composting Council since 2010 and served on its Executive Committee in 2011 and 2012, as Vice President and Treasurer, respectively. He is a Solid Waste Association of North America Certified Composting Systems Technical Associate. Mr. Kessler received his MBA at New York University, graduating with Distinction and as a Stern Scholar. He received his BA in Economics from the University of Virginia. He was a guest lecturer at NYU’s Executive MBA program and has served on the Board of Directors for early stage companies and non-profit corporations. View Guest page
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David Kiron
David is Executive Editor of Sloan Management Review’s Big Ideas Initiatives, which focus on management issues related to sustainability, analytics and social media. He is responsible for delivering online content and published outputs connected with MIT SMR’s Big Ideas editorial content, and guiding the launch of new initiatives. Prior to joining SMR, David was a senior researcher at Harvard Business School, where he worked closely with more than 100 senior level executives to produce dozens of case studies over a ten-year span. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Rochester. View Guest page
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Jason Lange
Jason Lange is the CEO and Co-Founder of BloomBoard. Prior to founding BloomBoard, Jason spent several years working in financial services, first in Mergers & Acquisitions for UBS Investment Bank, and then for a healthcare and financial services-focused private equity firm, Flexpoint Ford Partners. Throughout his time in the private sector, Jason worked as an independent consultant for several charter school networks, and while in graduate school, he worked for NewSchools Venture Fund, evaluating how different technology tools might be used to improve student outcomes. Jason holds a BA in Psychology from Yale University, as well as an MA in Education and an MBA from Stanford University. View Guest page
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Thomas L. Lange
Thomas L. Lange is director, corporate communications for Union Pacific, North America’s largest publicly traded freight railroad based on Omaha, Neb. Created when Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act of July 1, 1862, authorizing construction of the transcontinental railroad, Union Pacific is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2012. A St. Louis native, Lange is a graduate of Webster University. View Guest page
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Sahil Lavingia
Sahil is the designer/founder/CEO of Gumroad. Previously, he was early at Pinterest and maker of turntable for iPhone. • Age 19 • Location San Francisco, CA • Company Gumroad Title Founder/CEO View Guest page
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Larry Lee
Larry Lee was the head of marketing at DA.AI Technology (http://www.daait.com/index.php/en/abouten), a green social enterprise that recycles post-consumer PET bottles, and makes them into textile products. He has been involved in the technology industry for more than 30 years. Larry began his career as the Director of Lite-On Technology, and later worked at different computer companies as Assistant Vice President. He joined DA.AI Technology in 2010. Due to relocation, Larry decided to waive his salary at DA.AI at the end of 2011 and started working for DA.AI as a volunteer while spending more time on his own company. Weitei Inc. View Guest page
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Jeffrey Manheimer
Jeff kicked off his travel career during his junior year of college, joining the Hyatt in Cambridge MA as a not-so-high-ranking room service employee. Working his way up, he went on to hold positions in sales, account management and electronic distribution with Hyatt Hotels. Changing things up a bit in 2007 but remaining loyal to the travel industry, Jeff then moved to Chicago to work on the online side of travel management with Travelzoo. He is currently VP of Business Development and Partnerships at Tripping International. Tripping is a global community of travelers that connects travelers with locals and rental options via a Discovery Search Engine that has been referred to as the “Kayak for Airbnb”. Jeff graduated with a Communications degree from Boston University and a huge fan of fishing, flying airplanes, bidding on eBay auctions and collecting those little hotel toiletries. His last trip was to Japan and Vietnam. View Guest page
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Joy McGovern
Joy McGovern, Ph.D., is the Head of Client Services at Najafi Global Mindset Institute, at Thunderbird School of Global Management, the world’s No. 1-ranked school of international business Dr. McGovern is an industrial and organizational psychologist who has spent her career as a leadership consultant and business developer across a wide range of industries and services. Previously, she was the practice leader for Right Management Consultants. Joy is a sought after and frequent presenter on her work and has presented to the American Psychological Association, the Society of Industrial/ Organizational Psychologists, the New York Metropolitan Society for Applied Psychology (Metro) and other professional conferences. She was the author of the Return on Investment Study of Executive Coaching that explored the impact of executive coaching on behavioral and organizational change and the organization’s bottom line. Joy has also been quoted extensively in a wide variety of media outlets. View Guest page
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Mary Hope McQuiston
Mary Hope McQuiston is the director of marketing and business development for the Autodesk Consumer Group. She is responsible for driving all branding and user acquisition and retention programs for the company’s growing portfolio of consumer products, including SketchBook, Pixlr, Socialcam, Homestyler and 123D. McQuiston is also responsible for securing key consumer partnerships. She has helped grow Autodesk’s consumer business from its inception to more than 80 million users in two years and was responsible for forging partnerships with TechShop and a number of 3D printing providers. Prior to Autodesk, she served as the vice president of marketing for Neoforma, a provider of web based supply chain management solutions for hospitals. McQuiston also spent five years at Autodesk in the 1990s and started her career in CD-ROM publishing. She holds a B.A. in History from Connecticut College. View Guest page
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Nanette Lee Miller
Nanette Lee Miller serves as Marcum’s West Coast Partner-In-Charge of Assurance Services. She has more than 20 years experience in public accounting & provides assurance, accounting & business consulting services to publicly & privately held businesses, as well as not-for-profit organizations. Ms. Miller works with various emerging companies including manufacturing, distribution, retail & professional services companies in diverse industries; such as finance, healthcare, & technology. She is a trusted business advisor for start-up & emerging companies, as well as troubled entities that require restructuring. Ms. Miller believes in helping the community she lives in & has been an active & sought after board member for many local healthcare, service & faith-based not-for-profits. Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting & advisory services firms in the nation. Ranked among the top 15 firms in the nation, Marcum offers the resources of more than 1,100 professionals, including more than 150 partners, in 23 offices throughout the U.S., China & Grand Cayman. www.marcumllp.com View Guest page
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Adrian C. Ott
Adrian C. Ott Award-Winning Author, Speaker and CEO, Exponential Edge Inc. Consulting Magazine said, “Adrian Ott is one of Silicon Valley’s most respected, if not the most respected, strategists. “ She is award-winning author of The 24-Hour Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy http://j.mp/cJASOb which was awarded Best Business Book of the Year by USA Book News, Library Journal and Small Business Trends. She is also CEO of Exponential Edge® Inc. consulting and keynotes frequently at industry events. Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Strategy & Leadership Journal and she has appeared on Fox News, BloombergTV, and CNBC. Adrian was named the Silicon Valley Enterprising Woman of the Year in 2011 by The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. degree from U.C. Berkeley. View Guest page
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Paolo Parigi
Paolo Parigi received his PhD in sociology in 2008 from Columbia University and has since then been an assistant professor at Stanford University. Paolo has been interested in studying the emergence of cooperation processes that unite people and/or organizations in networks. The data he has used spans between contemporary and historical times. Paolo’s research shows how networks generate new cultural fields, social movements, ideologies and markets and has appeared in leading journals in the discipline. In the last two years, Paolo has been working on a collaborative project about the formation of trust using data from CouchSurfing. The overarching goal of this project is to develop a detailed model for trust formation among strangers that would become applicable in different contexts. More information about Paolo’s projects is available here: www.stanford.edu/~pparigi View Guest page
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Billy Parish
Billy Parish is Co-Founder and President of Mosaic, a clean energy investment marketplace, and Co-Author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World. In 2002, he dropped out of Yale to found the Energy Action Coalition and grew it into the largest youth advocacy organization in the world working on the climate crisis. A serial social entrepreneur, Parish has helped launch dozens of clean energy, youth, and green jobs related companies and organizations and has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” an Utne Reader “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. He lives in Oakland, CA, with his wife and two daughters. View Guest page
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Francesco Patarnello
Francesco Patarnello Work Experience: 2010-today: Co-founder and CEO at Evertale Education: 2008-2010: MSc in Telecommunication Engineering at Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2007-2010: MSc in Electrical Engineering at University of Padua, Italy Scholarships: 2008-2010: T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) Interests: - Travelling - Sport (Rugby, triathlon, and skiing) - Music (Jazz, Classical music, Rock, Hip-hop & RnB) - Diving (Instructor of Freediving) View Guest page
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Neil Patel
Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics. Through his entrepreneurial career he has helped large corporations such as Amazon, AOL, GM, HP and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was he named one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal, but he was also named one of the top entrepreneurs in the nation by Entrepreneur magazine. Neil has also received Congressional Recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives for his work in the nonprofit sector. View Guest page
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Polly Pearson
Polly Pearson is a brand relations and culture communication strategist who earned her stripes as a FORTUNE 500 hi-tech exec. Polly runs Pearson Advisory, offering coaching and consulting on brand and culture building, and is a public speaker to executives globally. Polly writes a blog on “Building and Branding Companies, Culture and Cool at http://www.pollypearson.com. Prior to launching her own firm, Polly built her reputation representing EMC Corp, for nearly 20 years. She held executive-level roles in marketing, human resources, branding, investor relations and public relations. Her work contributed to EMC’s record-level employee engagement and reputation as a place to work, a brand strategy which unified more than 50 distinct corporate brands. Polly’s work is currently featured in the McGraw Hill and Harvard Business Press books, “The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing,” “Top Talent,” and “Talk.inc.” View Guest page
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Bob Pellican
Bob Pellican Chief Executive Officer Bob Pellican has devoted 16 years of his career to user experience design, and is astonished by the poor quality of most medical software available to doctors and patients. He leads a team committed to radically changing and improving the experience of medical image-sharing worldwide. Prior to co-founding image32, Bob led the User Experience team at C3 Energy, growing the team through the startup phase to its first customers-Dow, GE, and PG&E. Before that, he was on the User Experience team at SuccessFactors, contributing to rapid growth and product success (SuccessFactors was acquired in 2012 by SAP for $3.4 billion). Earlier still, Bob led the interactive design team at Designworks, and founded design consulting firm Loop Interactive Technologies. Follow Bob on Twitter: @bobpellican View Guest page
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Tina Praino
Tina Praino is Managing Director of Engaging Retail and passionate about improving processes, increasing engagement and ultimately increasing the bottom line. She has over 20 years of retail operations management experience. Previously, she worked as Director of Operations at Ace Hardware. Tina is also an experienced speaker and facilitator, having created and delivered courses and motivational seminars to small and large groups alike. View Guest page
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Shiv Rajendran
Shiv Rajendran co-founded languagelab.com in 2005. He is a leading educational technologist frequently speaking at conferences on virtual world education. He is involved with the EU funded projects and advises on virtual worlds in academic contexts. Languagelab.com pioneered virtual world based language learning and teaches English to students from 110 different countries. View Guest page
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Martin Reeves
Martin Reeves is a Senior Partner and Managing Director in BCG's New York office and leads the Strategy Institute, BCG’s vehicle for translating ideas from beyond the world of business, which have implications for strategy. Recent research themes include strategy and sustainability, new bases of competitive advantage, the economics of trust, adaptive strategy and managerial heuristics. Martin joined BCG in London in 1989 and later moved to Tokyo, where he was responsible for BCG’s business with global clients. He has led numerous strategy and organizational assignments both for individual companies in consumer goods, financial services, healthcare, industrial goods and high tech. Before joining BCG, Martin worked for ICI, in Japan and the UK, in marketing and strategic planning. Martin holds a triple first class MA in natural sciences from Cambridge University and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management View Guest page
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Kelli Richards
Kelli Richards, President & CEO of The All Access Group LLC, is a former Apple executive. She ran the music and entertainment vertical during her 10 years there, and has since been working with disruptive, innovative start-ups and Fortune100 companies as a consultant, mentor, trusted advisor and change agent in the convergence of technology and entertainment for over 15 years. She's known as a pioneer and veteran in the world of digital music, media and entertainment. She's also a coach for successful professionals, from rock stars to tech innovators. In this capacity she empowers high achievers to make an even greater impact on the world, in addition to their own lives, and to create powerful relationships within her vast network of influencers. In addition, Kelli is also a 'celebrity wrangler', a talent producer, best-selling author, speaker, group leader and a radio show host. If you'd like to learn more about Kelli and her work please visit her site at www.allaccessgroup.com View Guest page
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Derek Sasaki
Traci Torres and Derek Sasaki co-founded My Pet Chicken, and together they run the business and manage its team of twenty. In 2001, after having worked in Advertising, Traci joined the stock photo agency where Derek had worked since 1998. Derek and Traci worked side by side as Technology Director and Marketing Director, respectively, for five years. Traci left in 2006 to focus on My Pet Chicken, and Derek continued his work in the technology arena until 2010, when he joined Traci in a full-time capacity at My Pet Chicken. My Pet Chicken was created to educate novices about how easy and rewarding keeping chickens can be, and it quickly grew to offer a host of chicken-related products and services. With sales exceeding two million dollars in 2011, the Company made the 2012 Inc. Magazine list of top 5,000 fastest-growing businesses. The Company’s website, www.mypetchicken.com receives over two million unique visitors and twenty-eight million page views annually. View Guest page
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Cynthia Scott
Cynthia Scott Ph.D. Core Faculty Presidio Graduate School and ChangeworksLAB - As Faculty Director of the Executive Programs she provides the inspiration and thought leadership for leaders bringing the transformation required to implement sustainability in their organizations. She brings over 25 years of experience in helping leaders build work environments where engagement and innovation flourish. Her background in behavior change, leadership development, and large scale culture change has provided the foundation for innovative approaches for organizations such as Walmart, Wellpoint, Capital One, Charles Schwab, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Deloitte & Touche, Estee Lauder, National Semiconductor and IBM. Cynthia is co-author of books, assessment tools and innovative capability development programs, among them: Making Sustainable Change, Agility: Fast feedback leadership, Take This Job and Love it, Getting Your Organization to Change, Empowerment, Rekindling Commitment, Navigating Change, Organizational Mission, Vision and Values, the Values Edge and Self Renewal. View Guest page
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Tiffany Shlain
Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, artist, founder of the Webby Awards, and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. She is known for illuminating complex ideas in culture, science, technology and life through unique films, dynamic talks, and innovative projects. Her last four films premiered at Sundance, including her 2011-acclaimed feature documentary, Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology. Tiffany’s latest film series, Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change, is paving the way for a new kind of collaborative filmmaking that her film studio calls CLOUD FILMMAKING. The series will include 16 two to 10-minute films focused on important aspects of human life. Each film invites participants to submit videos that are used to create powerful shorts that are customized for free and given to not-for-profit organizations all over the world. For more information, visit www.tiffanyshlain.com. Twitter @tiffanyshlain. View Guest page
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Mimi Halper Silbert
The dynamic force behind Delancey Street is its President & CEO, Dr. Mimi Halper Silbert. Although she does not share the same background as her fellow residents, she lives at Delancey Street, abides by its rules, and takes no salary. Her tenacious spirit and unlimited energy have built an organization unique in its entrepreneurial and self-governing structure. Her dedication in enacting her vision of an educational community of change has inspired residents to break their destructive cycles and take responsibility for themselves and others. Dr. Silbert has garnered national and international attention for her achievement at Delancey Street, demonstrating her belief that the people who are the problem can, themselves, become the solution. As a result of her pioneering work, Silbert and Delancey have received numerous awards. From the academic world she has been awarded ten (10) Honorary Doctorate Degrees including Brandeis, UMass, Golden Gate University, San Francisco State University, and will be receiving an 11th degree from Ben Gurion University in Israel. She was awarded UC Berkeley's prestigious Alumni of the Year (1991) along with being named one of 100 Berkeley Fellows, an Honorific Society. She has also received the President's Medallions from both University of San Francisco (1995) and UC San Francisco (2001). View Guest page
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Baljeet Singh
Baljeet Singh is Group Product Manager on Video Monetization at Google, responsible for enabling video advertising on YouTube. Baljeet has worked on other video products at Google including DoubleClick In-Stream, AdSense for Video, and AdSense for Games. Prior to this role, Baljeet was a Product Manager on the DoubleClick publisher products, including DART Sales Manager and DART for Publishers. Baljeet has an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. View Guest page
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Michael Slind
Michael Slind, a writer and communication strategist, is co-author of Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010). Previously, he served as managing editor and as a senior editor at Fast Company magazine. During his tenure as its managing editor, Fast Company won a National Magazine Award for general excellence. Slind has also worked at Harvard Business School, where he collaborated with faculty members to write widely used case studies on corporate strategy and entrepreneurial management. As a communication professional, Slind focuses on developing creative and strategically relevant solutions to client needs. In that role, he has undertaken projects for Tom Peters and other business thought leaders. He lives in Palo Alto, California. View Guest page
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Doug Solomon
Doug Solomon is an IDEO Fellow and innovation consultant. For the past five years, Doug was Chief Technology Officer at IDEO, working to leverage technologies that create both business and social value. With more than 25 years of leadership experience, Doug has a particular interest in collaborative technologies that enable greater community engagement and transform organizations. He currently focuses on health and wellness, technology, innovation and business development. Prior to joining IDEO, he was vice president of investments at Omidyar Network, where he helped pioneer a new approach to socially impactful investing. He was also senior vice president of corporate development and chief strategy officer at both Apple and Palm, and he held leadership positions at a Paul Allen-owned technology incubator, and several start-ups. He began his career working on public health programs in Asia, applying business principles for social change. Doug is a volunteer chaplain at Stanford Hospital and advises many social impact organizations. He holds a master’s degree from the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. View Guest page
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John Soong
John Soong has over 20 years experience of business & system software, In 2000 he founded Arcare Corp., it is an advanced software technology company providing e-Knowledge Fabrication Management (eKFM) technology. The eKFM platform allows companies to obtain application software by simply defining knowledge and helps create more knowledge-related jobs in the economy. Proper performance of knowledge will also lead the whole industry conduct the economy, and improve environment-protection. After John had accomplished eKFM's R&D in 2010, he transferred control to his partner,Mr.Joe Kao. John has been a fulltime artist since June 2010. He is one of the most popular bird photographer on Flickr with 3.5 million views for his photostream. He also had several solo exhibitions that were very well received. His photostream on Flickr is www.flickr.com/photos/johnfish View Guest page
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Ron Steiger
Ron Steiger currently serves as assistant chief budget officer for Miami-Dade County Public Schools. He previously served the district as executive director of the Office of Special Projects and during his Residency as executive director of budget and operations. Prior to the Residency, Steiger worked in the Analytics group of Leo Burnett, a global advertising agency. In this role, he assisted the U.S. Army in better using data to improve its recruiting efforts. He began his career as a senior consultant for Arthur Andersen, specializing in data mining. Steiger earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Michigan, and a master’s degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Steiger participated in The Broad Residency in Urban Education Cohort 2005, serving his two-year Residency in Miami-Dade County Public schools. View Guest page
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Doug Stephens
Doug Stephens is one of the world’s foremost retail industry futurists. His intellectual work and thinking have influenced many of North America's best-known retailers, agencies and brands including Target, Home Depot, Disney, Crayola, WestJet, Citibank, Razorfish and Air Miles. Prior to founding Retail Prophet, Doug spent 20 years in the retail industry, holding senior international roles including the leadership of one of New York City's most historic retail chains. Doug is the author of the ground breaking book The Retail Revival: Re-Imagining Business for the New Age of Consumerism. He is also the consumer technology contributor on the acclaimed television series App Central TV, as well as the retail contributor for CBC Radio Canada. Doug is an in-demand speaker and advisor to organizations across North America and Europe on the future of retail and consumerism. View Guest page
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Traci Torres
Traci Torres and Derek Sasaki co-founded My Pet Chicken, and together they run the business and manage its team of twenty. In 2001, after having worked in Advertising, Traci joined the stock photo agency where Derek had worked since 1998. Derek and Traci worked side by side as Technology Director and Marketing Director, respectively, for five years. Traci left in 2006 to focus on My Pet Chicken, and Derek continued his work in the technology arena until 2010, when he joined Traci in a full-time capacity at My Pet Chicken. My Pet Chicken was created to educate novices about how easy and rewarding keeping chickens can be, and it quickly grew to offer a host of chicken-related products and services. With sales exceeding two million dollars in 2011, the Company made the 2012 Inc. Magazine list of top 5,000 fastest-growing businesses. The Company’s website, www.mypetchicken.com receives over two million unique visitors and twenty-eight million page views annually. View Guest page
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Jeffrey Travis
Jeffrey Travis is an award-winning film director, writer, producer, and speaker. He received a Master’s degree in electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. After starting a software company and authoring several books on graphical programming, Jeffrey moved into filmmaking in 2002. His debut short film, What’s Wrong with This Picture?, went on to play at over 40 film festivals, and caught the attention of 20th Century FOX, who hired him to write and direct a television pilot presentation. His film Flatland The Movie (2007), an animated sci-fi film starring the voices of Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Tony Hale, and Michael York, has been seen by over 1 million children in classrooms around the country. Currently, Jeffrey is in post-production for his debut feature film Dragon Day, a timely political thriller about a family surviving a devastating cyber-attack by China on the United States when the country defaults on its debt. View Guest page
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Cynthia Typaldos
Cynthia Typaldos is President and Founder of Kachingle – a company focusing on web monetization platforms using its patent-pending micropayment technology. Cynthia has an MBA from MIT, and attended graduate school in computer science. Cynthia’s first venture, GolfWeb (1995) - comprising player reviews, member profiles, a reputation system, and a find-a-playing-partner system, was acquired by CBS Sportsline. In 2001, Cynthia founded RealCommunities based on her manifesto, “The 12 Principles of Civilization” which later became a defining white paper about online social interaction. In 2004, Cynthia foresaw the disruptive challenges the Internet would pose to the content and software industries as it matured, and began architecting a platform to address this visionary idea. In 2009, Kachingle was founded to launch a solution – a donation-based micropayment platform. Recently Kachingle pivoted into a revolutionary web monetization and virtual partnering platform; Kachingle Premium. View Guest page
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Anna Utgoff
Anna Utgoff, Director of Teaching and Learning Solutions at Aspire Public Schools Anna works on helping educators at Aspire Public Schools use technology to close the achievement gap for the 10,000 kids we serve. Her current project is Schoolzilla.org, a data analysis & visualization platform that Aspire has made publicly available to other school systems. Prior to joining Aspire, she worked as a consultant at Bain & Company to facilitate change in a wide variety of public and private sector organizations. She graduated from Princeton with an BA in History in 2001, and from UC Berkeley with an MBA in 2007, and is an alum of Teach for America’s 2001 NY Corps. View Guest page
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Victor Wang
Victor grew up in Canada, programming text-based role-playing games for MS-DOS at age six. He received a BASc in Mechatronics Engineering with Distinction (Minor in Commerce) from UBC, and worked stints in telemarketing, environmental research, aerospace manufacturing, particle physics, oil sands, medical robotics, and the military, as an officer. Victor then got his MS from MIT, where he researched human-machine interaction for NASA while serving as one of the premier leaders in graduate student government. Considering his own grandparents in Taiwan, Victor founded GeriJoy to improve quality of life for seniors living away from family. GeriJoy supports seniors’ mental health through patent-pending virtual companions that provide similar health benefits to owning live pets. They also deliver mentally stimulating content such as photos and news from family members, and provide intelligent, compassionate conversation, available 24/7. View Guest page
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Julie Weeks
Julie Weeks is the President and CEO of Womenable, a research, program and policy development consultancy enabling women’s entrepreneurship worldwide. Weeks is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of women’s entrepreneurship. Prior to launching Womenable in 2005, she served as Executive Director of the National Women’s Business Council, a federally-funded bipartisan policy advisory body created by the U.S. Congress to serve as an independent voice of women’s entrepreneurship and an advisor to the President, U.S. Congress and the U.S. Small Business Administration on women’s entrepreneurship issues. Weeks has also served as the Director of Research and Managing Director of the Center for Women’s Business Research, the Deputy Chief Counsel for Statistics and Research at the U.S. Small Business Administration, and was Vice President for Research and Public Policy at two market research firms. View Guest page
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Mark Winter
Mark Winter is Senior Director of the Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE and Nokia Sensing X CHALLENGE. He has more than 30 years of management experience in high technology, information services and health informatics. He was most recently a founder and Executive Vice President of Gluco Fitness Center, Inc. which provides wireless blood glucose and physiological monitoring of people with diabetes. Previously he served as the CEO of Simulis LLC which provided simulation-based training and assessment services to large healthcare systems. Mr. Winter began his career in design and marketing at Apple, Adobe Systems, Lucid and Compression Laboratories. He later served as Vice President of Corporate Development for Continental Graphics Holdings, Inc. He then served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development for e-SIM, Inc., a leading provider of software simulation tools for embedded systems such as cellular phones and other hand-held electronics. View Guest page
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Takuro Yoshida
Takuro Yoshida is a CEO of Logbar Inc., running an iPad Social Tech Bar in Tokyo, Japan. In this bar, Takuro works both as a batender and a programmer to get feedbacks directly from customers and fix a bug instantly. Before opening the bar, Takuro has created more than 100 web and iPhone/Android applications as a programmer and designer. He also has experience opening a new Hotel in Manhattan, New York. Currently, he hosts many events which focus on connecting people offline. In order to make the best of his skills, he has started Logbar, which connects customers in the store through iPad and created a new operating system, LogOS, that allows people in the same location to connect instantly. Learn more at logbar.jp/en and l-os.jp. View Guest page
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Judy Zhu
Judy Zhu leads Merchandising at Sneakpeeq.com, developing overall brand strategy and the eCommerce experience. Judy has spent much of her career in the retail world online and offline. She was Director of Marketing at Sephora, where she owned the international e-commerce business and led all initiatives to drive sales and branding in Canada. Prior to that, she launched eCommerce sites at Quidsi Inc. (acquired by Amazon in 2011), as Director of Merchandising at Soap.com, which was deemed as one of the largest launches in online history with over 30,000 SKUs and 500 vendor relationships across 12 categories. She led leading all aspects of merchandising and promotions, and was also responsible for post-acquisition integration with Amazon. Prior to this, Judy worked in Marketing at Louis Vuitton, and Sales with L’Oreal Luxury Goods Division. Judy earned a BCom degree from the University of Victoria (Canada), with a major in International Business, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. View Guest page
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Reinventing U.S. Education
June 4, 2012
Hosted by Nancy Lin
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What would the future of America look like if we fail to find an effective way to transform our education system? As the US public schools face huge budget cuts and dismal academic performance, the challenge to reform can seem insurmountable. According to the most recent study, the United States ranked 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science and 25th for mathematics. But constraints are often the impetus for innovation. In this program, we will take a look at the impressive accomplishments by Broad Residency and DonorsChoose, and how these organizations infuse best practices from business to help transform schools in trouble and in need. Their experiences offer great lessons for leaders who are looking to transform their companies.
Business REINVENTION
Monday at 4 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel
“Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it is the realization we can.” - Shawn Achor
Reinvention is what America is all about. For centuries, people came to this country to reinvent their futures. Today’s organizations face unprecedented challenges and speed of change. To thrive in today’s marketplace, companies have to transform themselves frequently to stay competitive. “Business Reinvention with Nancy Lin” empowers you to think innovatively and offers you inspiration and business lessons from business innovators and thought leaders. Leveraging Nancy’s own diverse experience in business and international development, the show features guests from a wide range of sectors and countries who have succeeded in transforming their organizations, shifting business paradigms and bringing about social change. Business Reinvention with Nancy Lin is broadcast live every Monday at 4 PM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.
Nancy Lin
Nancy Lin is an executive coach, a business consultant and the founder of Change Agent SF (www.changeagentsf.com) which helps leaders transform the way they look at their business and leadership. Nancy brings to her show a strong understanding of business, having worked in marketing for Yahoo, DHL, Johnson & Johnson and Pepsi. Her insightful probing approach and passion to unleash potential helped companies uncover hidden opportunities, topple conventional thinking and achieve high growth in US and international markets. Through the radio show, she continues to encourage innovative thinking and empowers the audience to overcome their business challenges.
Her diverse experience also includes international development work, training impoverished farmers in rural Tanzania and expanding professional midwifery education for young indigenous women in Mexico. She is a motivational speaker and has spoken at Google, Visa and HP. Some of her articles are available at bizreinvention.com and changeagentsf.wordpress.com.
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